Past Pilot Projects

Previously awarded pilot projects funded by a NIA ADRC grant.

Award Year 4/1/2015 - 3/31/2016

• Janghoo Lim, PhD: "The role of Neuroinflammation in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease with focus on nemo-Like Kinase"
• Ming-Kai Chen, MD, PhD: "Brain PET Imaging of Synaptic Density in Alzheimer's disease"

Award Year 4/1/2016 - 3/31/2017

• Ming-Kai Chen, MD, PhD: "Brain PET Imaging of Synaptic Density in Alzheimer's disease"
• Becky Carlyle, PhD: "Profiling 3D Amyloid Patterns"

Award Year 4/1/2017 - 3/31/2018

• Marc Hammarlund, PhD: "A new C. elegans model for AB42 toxicity"

Award Year 4/1/2018 - 3/31/2019

• Carla Rothlin, PhD: "Mechanisms of reactive astrogliosis - a critical feature in Alzheimer's disease"
• Sreeganga Chandra, PhD: "Testing Synapse Protection Strategies for Alzheimer's disease"
• Anita Huttner, MD: "Modeling Sporadic Alzheimer's disease with Human IPSC-Derived Cerebral Organoids"

Award Year 4/1/2019 - 3/31/2020

• Kurt Zilm, PhD: "Structural characterization by NMR of amyloid-beta oligomers bounds in hydrogel phase to prion protein"
• Le Zhang, PhD: "Single nucleus and single-cell profiling of human brain and CSF in Alzheimer's disease"

Award Year 6/15/2020 - 4/30/2021

• Eyiyemisi Damisah, MD: "Investigating statistical learning in the Dementias"
• Yize Zhao, PhD: "Connectome coupling and genetic underpinning in the Supernormal"
• Daniel Jane-Wit, MD, PhD, RPVI: "ZFYVE21 and Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy in Alzheimer's disease Related Dementias"